Topic: RCM MAME Cab PC and the magic smoke (Read 5300 times)

Yep - powered the PC on earlier today to start building the OS - all was going well for about 30mins (until it began to heat up) and then the magic smoke appeared and things don't look so good now

Now I have a problem - The Arcade VGA card I have for use with the original arcade monitor is AGP - and the only spare kit I have is more modern and PCIe.

Do I go in search of an old AGP motherboard which, lets face it, won't run anything more than the "classic" games or do I invest in RCM and order a PCIe ArcadeVGA card for my spare machine (core2duo - so more than capable).

Timing is crap as I have all the 0.141 ROMS, CHDs and a front-end all ready to roll.

What an absolute shame - looked to be a good machine! Looks like we are destined never to have a working MAME cab for too long - although our batop was okay at the last show! I will leave it in your hands mate . . . You have donated so much already! I can't say one way or another what to do!Up to you mate.

Andy

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"I could see the faces of those who led pissing themselves laughing" - Funeral Pyre by The Jam

Nice! with specs like that, should be fun to see something like Daphne/Nebula running on it. Oh and regarding speakers, i found that even the most crappy 'petrol station specials' siund pretty good inside the wooden cab providing plenty of accoustic bass.

Nice! with specs like that, should be fun to see something like Daphne/Nebula running on it. Oh and regarding speakers, i found that even the most crappy 'petrol station specials' siund pretty good inside the wooden cab providing plenty of accoustic bass.

Front-end done - with MAME all setup with a selection of its greatest hits (the whole 9000 roms are too many to list for an open day!!)

What other systems/emulators do you guys want me to put on there.... Daphne + DL is one I can do (I actually have an orginal DL disk to get the video from) - I don't have the video for any of the other Daphne games.